Tobacco composition



UNITED STATES PATENT OrricEt JOSEPH J. LAWRENCE, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

TOBACCO COM POSITION.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 250,740, dated December 13, 1881, Application filed August 20, 1881. (No specimens.)

plug and fine-cut chewing and smoking to-' bacco, and into cigars and cigarettes; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and-exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.-

The object of my invention is to improve the flavor of manufactured tobaccos, and to neutralize their narcotic effects, and thereby render them harmless to the human system. My invention or discovery consists in a composition formed by mixing tobacco with the ingredient coca in the following proportions and manner, viz:

For the purpose of manufacturing plug-tobacco in combination with coca, mix the dried and stemmed leavesas ordinarily prepared of the plant coca (Erythrowylon coca) with the cured and stemmed leaves of tobacco-plant as ordinarily prepared for manufacture in the proportions of equal parts of each ingredient named, or in any other proportions. The proportions may be estimated according to the strength or narcotic powers of the tobacco. A larger proportion of coca may be used where the tobaccois strong or of great narcotic power, and a less proportion of coca where the tobacco is mild. To form this mixture, place the leaves of the two ingredients named in alternate layers, and in the proportions desired, during the process of manufacturing the same into plug-tobacco.

For the purpose of manufacturing fine-cut tobacco-in combination with coca, mix the tobacco and coca in the same proportions and manner as for plug-tobacco, as above described, and then prepare this mixture after the ordinary manner into fine-cut chewing or smoking tobacco, or let the coca be finely cut and mixed in equal or in any desirable proportions with the tobacco after the tobacco has been prepared into ordinary fine-cut.

For the purpose of manufacturing cigars and cigarettes in combination with coca, the coca may be mixed with the tobacco fillings for the cigars and cigarettes in any proportion desired.

All the varieties of tobacco manufactured with the ingredient coca, as above described, are manufactured in combination with the usual ingredients, into the ordinary forms, and in the same manner as chewing and smoking tobacco now are.

I am aware that prior to my invention tobacco has been manufactured in various ways 

